People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 January 1896 — DEFEATED THE CUBANS. [ARTICLE]

DEFEATED THE CUBANS.

Spanish Troops Win the Fight Near Guanajay—Havana Is Quiet. Havana, Jan. 9. —An important conflict seems to be impending. The overpowering Spanish columns everywhere in the vicinity of the small bands of insurgents that have been harrying the country north of the railways have been called in. Gomez is evidently consolidating his forces. Havana is perfectly quiet. The volunteers have not been called out, although a general order issued gives full details of what is to be done in case of necessity. Details from official sources of the fight near Guanajay, in Pinar del Rio, say the rebels were defeated by General Navarro. The insurgents had twenty-three killed and forty-three wounded left on the field. The insurgents are said to have carried away many more of their wounded, and the# left seventeen Remington rifles behind them. General Navarro pursued the insurgents and overtook their rear guard at Ceiba de Agua and in the skirmish which followed four Insurgents were killed and three were taken prisoners. On the government side, it is announced, only four officers and thirty soldiers were wounded in both engagements. Three of the soldiers sustained serious wounds.